Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-17
Che Pouseholo.
HOUSEHOLD ART.
dorothy whipple in Good Cheer.I

dorothy Whipple in Good Cheer
The tendency to overdo the matter of
decoration is leading many who fear
vii results to suggest that superhuous
BOWS be rejected, and that inoifensive
its of bric-a-brac of good form be left
rec from paint and varnish.
Whatever be the outcome of it all,
urely it has done Il world of good to
wake people up everywhere to the fact
hat homes may be ineXpensively deco
rated: and if, in the first enthusiasm
creates by such knowledge, many have
been led to make gross mistakes, never
heless good only can come of an honest
effort to make home attractive.
Use paint on the walls of dining-rooms
rather than inferior wallpaper.
Nothing can be pretter for summer,
pr III fact for wear the year around, than
paint of yellowish brown, which serves
rs excellent background for pictures and
hangings, and with which flOor-rugs and
carpet contrast eXcellently well.
1t is more desirable to maintain artis-
tic coloring in our decorations than to
present to the eye all sorts of devices of
varied and questionable shades.
The walls of dining-room in Il sum
mer house at Lake George are painted a
Hight terra Gotta to within eighteen inches
. of the ceiling, and without even hair
line of black to separate it from the red,
the freze is painted blue-soft, light blue.
OF course there is nothing new about
this. but one is apt to recall restful dec
Grafton of this order when hidden to Il
| feast in "A room made gaudy with mpos-
sibe birds and flowers.
\ hammock for the piazza of Il country
house was made by "A boy for his mother
last summer after a design found in a
back number of IIarper's Young People.
Any one who owns the bound volume
of that magazine can get better idea
from the cuts in the June No., 1888. than
can be given without illustration.
The original idea was improved upon
somewhat, and after giving directions
verbatim from the magazine the addi-
lions will be noted:
$40 make this hammock, procure q
clean barrel, take of the hoops and care
fully draw out all the nails. Then draw
pencil line crosswise three inches from
and parallel to. both ends of each stave.
"Then. with tive-eighths of an incl
n,,rar hit (,tsal tba nannil limo ~ nan-
teri bore two holes at each end of all tn,
slaves, leaving an equal margin on botl
sides. and sufficient room in the middl,
to prevent breakage. As some of tn,
slaves are wider than others. you viii
have to use your own Judgment in tn,
distance apart you bore these holes.
$50 fasten the slaves together, Obtain
piece of stout rope about twenty fee
long. Thread the rope first through tn
holes from the outside part of the slaves
then through the following hole. Re
peat this until one side is finished.
Thread the other side in the sam
manner, tie the ends of the rope togethe
and to the loops on either end: taste
the stays long enough to conveniently
swing the hammock.
"A space of about one inch should b
left between the slaves.
Our enterprising young friend painte
each stave of the barrel different colol
and fastened to each loop of the rop
(under the staves) "A bright Irvine tasse
The effect was pretty, and the han
of the veranda.